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Customer Service Management

Business Scenario

 


Business Scenario Maps

  • Complaints & Returns Management
  • Customer Service and Support with Interaction Center
  • High Tech: Service Based Revenue Recognition
  • High Tech: Service Contract Maintenance for Installed Base
  • High Tech: Service Processing with Contract-Based Service Level Agreements (SLAs)
  • High Tech: Time Based Revenue Recognition
  • High Tech: Warranty Processing (Collaborative)
  • Interaction Center Workforce Management
  • Service Order Management
  • Service Request Management
  • Key Performance Indicators

  • Percentage of Customer Complaints
  • Percentage of Escalations
  • Percentage of Warranty Requests
  • Returns
  • Warranty and returns
  • SAP Best Practices

  • Available preconfigured scenarios in SAP Best Practices for High Tech - EMS
  • Partner Opportunities

  • Partner Opportunities in High Tech - Electronics Manufacturing Service Provider (EMS/ODM)

  • Customer Service is critical to the success of most businesses. Several components of Customer Service exist to support businesses in identifying, targeting and profitably exceeding their customers' expectations. Service Sales & Marketing enables companies to plan and execute marketing strategies and monitor their results for service related activities, which supports organizations in accurately planning and forecasting service sales activities, rapidly analyzing their service sales pipeline, effectively managing tasks, targeting cross-selling and up-selling opportunities, and promoting collaboration in a team-selling environment. This enables companies to plan and forecast services and the necessary resources (people, parts, tools). Most companies also provide service to customers through Interaction or Call Centers. Customers can contact your company through their preferred channels, including telephone, email, fax, letter and web chat. Interaction Center agents can record service requirements and provide updates on existing service requests with a full view of the customer's installations & assets, their complete service history, planned services and relevant recalls or service letters. On-site appointments for service technicians can be scheduled by the Interaction Center agents, even combining reactive service visits with existing preventive maintenance plans.

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    Business Goals & Objectives


    Improving Customer Service

    Better service levels
    Improve forecast accuracy

    Increasing Revenue

    Improve customer retention and loyalty
    Provide competitive service offerings

     



    Business Processes

    Strategic Service PlanningSAP Component or Feature Available

    Provides long range analytical planning of future resource requirement for the anticipated service business.

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    This process is supported by the following SAP and/or partner offerings

  • SAP Customer Service & Support for High Tech
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    Service Contract ProcessingSAP Component or Feature Available

    You use this process to create a service contract that can be used later on as a basis for service processes. Enables companies to provide solutions to their customers on demand and a billing model where they pay for what is used in a service scenario or as part of an integrated scenario with financing contracts.

    This process is supported by the following SAP and/or partner offerings

  • SAP Customer Service & Support for High Tech
  • SAP ERP
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    Installed Base ProcessingSAP Component or Feature Available
    An installed base can be used  to manage service-relevant information for products or services that have been installed at customer sites. For example, a network server can be represented as an installed base, with specific information relating to sub-assemblies or key components visible for determining warranty and repair information during a trouble call.

    This process is supported by the following SAP and/or partner offerings

  • SAP Customer Service & Support for High Tech
  • SAP ERP
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    Product and Warranty RegistrationSAP Component or Feature Available
    You use this process to create warranties in the system and to assign installed base components or individual objects to these warranties. The assignment can be performed manually, or automatically with reference to a product with warranty assignment. After registering an individual object, Internet customers in E-Service for example, receive the information about the automatically assigned customer warranty on their screen.

    This process is supported by the following SAP and/or partner offerings

  • SAP Customer Service & Support for High Tech
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    Complaints ProcessingSAP Component or Feature Available

    Provides processes to track and manage complaint information through resolution. Enables complaints to be created and tracked on the Web and routed to development, if necessary.

    This process is supported by the following SAP and/or partner offerings

  • SAP Customer Service & Support for High Tech
  • SAP ERP
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    Customer Service & SupportSAP Component or Feature Available
    Enables companies to manage inbound and outbound communications across multiple channels with their existing customer base. Supports interaction center agents in solving customer complaints, creating service orders based on existing service contracts, and offering appointment scheduling. Web-based self-service solutions enable customers to track order status, maintain their installed base, and display billing and payment information. Also provides partners and customers with direct access to service center representatives, using chat, e-mail, co-browsing, Voice-Over-Internet Protocol, or callback from the Web.

    This process is supported by the following SAP and/or partner offerings

  • SAP Customer Service & Support for High Tech
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    Self-Service Support through FAQ and Solution SearchSAP Component or Feature Available

    In this process customers try to solve their product problems through searches of frequently asked questions (FAQs). FAQs are sorted by product. Each FAQ is linked to a list of possible solutions. FAQ Search is a self-service tool that reduces interaction costs, increases customer satisfaction and improves efficiency and profitability.

    This process is supported by the following SAP and/or partner offerings

  • SAP Customer Service & Support for High Tech
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    Returns ProcessingSAP Component or Feature Available
    This process enables companies to accept goods returned by a customer and issue credit, as needed.

    This process is supported by the following SAP and/or partner offerings

  • SAP Customer Service & Support for High Tech
  • SAP ERP
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    Service Support AnalysisSAP Component or Feature Available

    Provides service support analytics, including installed base analytics, service contract analytics, and service level agreements analytics.

    This process is supported by the following SAP and/or partner offerings

  • SAP Customer Service & Support for High Tech
  • SAP ERP
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    SAP Product Available Partner Product Available SAP Product Available with Future Releases Partner Product Available with Future Releases Future Focus